[1502]. Opp. et Dies, 644.
[1503]. It was owing to such piratical descents that the early inhabitants of Greece, for the most part, erected their towns and villages at some distance from the sea-coast, in situations difficult of access. Thucyd. § 7. Similar reasons have elsewhere led in modern times to similar results. Thus, in Alicuda, the remotest and most exposed of the Lipari islands, the dwellings of their simple natives and their priests are perched high in the hills among rocks and steep acclivities, through fear of the Barbary corsairs, who, from time to time, land there, and carry away into captivity whomsoever they are able to seize and subdue. Further, to guard against these incursions, a sentinel is stationed on the Monte della Guardia, in the principal isle, where he keeps watch day and night. Spallanzani, Travels in the Two Sicilies, iv. 140, sqq. We have here a picture which carries back the imagination to the most barbarous ages of Grecian history.
[1504]. Æginetica, p. 76.
[1505]. Demosth. de Nicostrat. § 3.
[1506]. Æginetica, p. 77.
[1507]. Epist. to Titus, i. 12, where he cites the testimony of Euripides, though without naming him.
[1508]. Eustath. ad Il. β. p. 604. Hesych. v. Ἀιγιναῖα. Cf. Interp. i. 137. Schol. Pind. Ol. viii. 26. Erasm. Adag. 71, 72.
[1509]. Polit. iv. 4. 1.
[1510]. Herod. iv. 152. Cf. Bœckh, Pub. Econ. of Athens, i. 9.
[1511]. Herod. vii. 147. Polyæn. Stratag. vii. 15. 3.